AVES. 155 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



FRINGILLIDAE. 



MASS. Uncommon local summer resident near coast and in 

 western valleys. (April 25) May 10-Sept. 1 (Dec. 10, 1892, Arling- 

 ton). 



R. I. Common local summer resident. April 22-Oct. 23. 

 Eggs, May 30-June 5. 



CONN. Common summer resident in southern part and Con- 

 necticut valley. Late April- ? 



289. AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII (Audubon) Gray. 

 Henslow's sparrow. 



Emberiza henslowii Aud., Ornith. biogr., 1831, vol. 1, p. 360, 

 pi. 77. "OPPOSITE CINCINNATI, IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY." 



Ammodramus henslowii (Aud.). Chapman, Handb. birds east. 

 No. Amer., 1895, p. 294. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 9, figs. 1, 2. 



Meadows and sedgy weed-grown bogs; nests on the ground. 



N. H. Rare local summer resident north to White Mt. valleys 

 (Wonalancet). April 17- Aug. 



VT. Rare local summer resident in southern part (Pownall). 



MASS. Uncommon local summer resident. May 6-Sept. 

 (Nov. 6, Osterville). Eggs, May 25. 



R. I. Rare migrant and summer resident: Cranston, late 

 April, 1874; Warwick, Oct. 6, 1898; Westerly, June 6 and 8, 1900. 



CONN. Rare local summer resident (Eastford, Killing worth, 

 Woodstock, etc.). May-fall. Eggs, -Aug. 6. 



290. AMMODRAMUS CAUDACUTUS (Gmelin) Swainson. 

 Sharp-tailed sparrow. 



Chapman, Handb. birds east. No. Amer., 1895, p. 295; Audu- 

 bon, Birds of Amer., 1841, vol. 3, p. 108, pi. 174. Egg, Capen, 

 1886, pi. 9, figs. 3, 4. 



Oriolus caudacutus Gmel., Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 394. 

 "IN NOVEBORACO." 



